Walid Hamid Tawfiq

Walid Hamid Tawfiq was the Governor of Basra Governorate under the Ba'athist Iraq regime of Saddam Hussein.

Biography
Walid Hamid Tawfiq was born in Iraq to a Sunni Muslim Arab family, and he joined the Iraqi Regional Branh of the Ba'ath Party. Tawfiq was appointed Governor of Basra Governorate under Saddam Hussein's rule, and he was one of the Iraqi leaders that the United States sought to capture during the Iraq War. On 29 April 2003, he surrendered to the US Army.